We had different ways we could have made these portraits. When you say a person’s personal data is translated, what do you mean? It took awhile, but we got the system up on the web that would take a photograph, two sound files and a tapping of a rhythm. About eight years ago, he asked me, could I do it. Everyone thought he was nuts, as often happens to people with foresight. You’d basically create the music of the person. LAWRENCE BALL: Pete had an idea 40 years ago now, that there could be a way for someone’s music to be created.
And he shared one of his favorite jokes.īLURT: What exactly is the Lifehouse Method?
He helped clear up exactly what Method Music and the Lifehouse Method are and what it was like to work with Pete Townsend. The second disc, Imaginary Galaxies, expands on this concept with three meditative, ambient 20-minute songs.īLURT recently spoke by phone with Ball, who was on holiday in Santa Fe. The first disc – Imaginary Sitters – is a collection of 11, five-minute long tracks using the Lifehouse Method. Active for 15 months, more than 10,000 unique works were created on-line by users having their data translated into music.įrom this experiment came Ball’s own two-disc album Method Music (in stores this week), which he composed and recorded in parallel to the Lifehouse Method website, though he didn’t tap any of the users’ creations. In 2007, Ball, an English composer, math tutor and founder of the Planet Tree Music Festival, along with Townshend and programmer Dave Snowdown, created a website called The Lifehouse Method. The intro to “Baba O’Riley” is an example of what this might sound like. Townsend envisioned a future where people could input personal data into a machine to create an individual musical portrait. While Lifehouse never came to fruition – though it spawned such classics as “Baba O’Riley,” “Behind Blue Eyes” and “Won’t Get Fooled Again” – an outgrowth from the project was the Lifehouse Method. Set in the future, the story involved a world that was falling apart, and rock music didn’t exist. Lifehouse was to be the album that followed Tommy. But what might be his boldest concept was the never-completed Lifehouse project. The British songwriter has penned some of the most ambitious music in rock history, such as the concept albums/rock operas Tommy and Quadrophenia. That statement on its own is not surprising. Who guitarist Pete Townshend had a concept. The electronic music composer brings Pete Townshend’s ‘Method’ to life.
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